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He mentions Balinese water temples, which had (have?) a practical, municipal function in regulating water distribution for farming.

House ought to be over by now, replaced by something totally different, like Balinese temple bell music.

There’s plenty of videos and photos showing Balinese living traditional lifestyles in mid to late 20th century.

Who cares about cultural universals; if the Balinese are happier as impoverished slackers, live and let live.

> The transaction is also a cousin of what Clifford Geertz called deep play with reference to betting patterns in Balinese cockfighting.

I would be truly impressed if a recommendation engine took me from The Residents to Balinese Gamelan.

If Balinese elites put roman coins in tombs, I would doubt its because they had low value to them.

Oh, wow, I'm having flashbacks to a writing class in college where we had to critique that Balinese Cockfighting thing.

Bali has reliably warmer weather than the Riverina in the winter months, so at a guess insulation would be less relevant for Balinese farmers.

Like their counterparts across the globe, Balinese farmers were encouraged to swap slow-growing local varieties for fast-growing hybrid rice, fertilizer and an extra harvest.

There’s a Balinese tradition similar to this, where they have a few name options for each child in order up to the 4th child.

You can get delivery in some parts of the Balinese forest.

Balinese Gamelan doesn't even neccessarily have an agreed number of "notes" in an "Octave" from one village to the next.

Also, Balinese names[0] are a trip if you're not familiar with them, where people are named by birth order (up to 4 -- after that you stick "again" on the name).

Both Thai and Khmer are Indic abugida scripts that derive (just like Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, Balinese, etc.) from Brahmi.

Balinese names, in particular, are typically by birth order regardless of gender.

What flag should represent Balinese, for example?